Waiver Wire Report: Wednesday, September 16

Another Wednesday, another round of FAAB chaos. Here’s who won, who lost, and who got absolutely sniped on the waiver wire this week.

Another Wednesday, another round of FAAB chaos. Here’s who won, who lost, and who got absolutely sniped on the waiver wire this week.

✅ The Winners

Let A Naber Know wins the priciest add of the week, dropping $14 to land WR Jalen Coker (CAR), cutting bait on RB Keaton Mitchell (LAC) to make room. That’s a serious commitment of FAAB for a depth piece — someone’s clearly buying the breakout.

Buffalo Bonez had a busy night, making two separate moves:

  • Spent $9 on WR Devaughn Vele (NO), dropping RB George Holani (SEA)
  • Spent $3 to flip streaming defenses, adding the Buccaneers D/ST and cutting the Lions D/ST

THE Norse Horse made a quieter but sneaky-smart move, paying $5 for QB Jared Goff (DET) and dropping TE Michael Mayer (LV) — a low-cost streamer/backup pickup at quarterback.

Team WR got in on the receiver run too, landing WR Caleb Douglas (MIA) for $4, dropping WR Adonai Mitchell (NYJ) to clear the spot.

❌ The Ones Who Got Sniped

It wasn’t pretty for everyone. A few squads fired bids that never had a chance:

  • Jalen Coker (CAR) was the hottest name on the wire — and the most contested. Abella DangerRuss ($10), Team WR ($8), and Buffalo Bonez ($4) all threw bids his way, but Let A Naber Know’s $14 buried the field.
  • Devaughn Vele (NO) drew a failed $7 bid from Let A Naber Know — ironic, since they’d already spent big elsewhere — right before Buffalo Bonez locked him up for $9.
  • Caleb Douglas (MIA) was a near-miss for THE Notorious B.H.G., whose $3 bid lost out to Team WR’s $4.
  • THE Norse Horse whiffed on a $2 flier for the Chiefs D/ST, though this one was more of a paperwork issue — the note flagged that “a player involved has already been dropped,” meaning the claim got voided before it ever had a shot at competing.

📊 Quick-Hit Summary

TeamMoveBid
Let A Naber Know+Jalen Coker (CAR WR) / −Keaton Mitchell (LAC RB)$14
Buffalo Bonez+Devaughn Vele (NO WR) / −George Holani (SEA RB)$9
THE Norse Horse+Jared Goff (DET QB) / −Michael Mayer (LV TE)$5
Team WR+Caleb Douglas (MIA WR) / −Adonai Mitchell (NYJ WR)$4
Buffalo Bonez+Buccaneers D/ST / −Lions D/ST$3

The Takeaway

Wide receiver depth was the story of the night — three separate teams chased Jalen Coker and Devaughn Vele, and FAAB budgets took a real hit fighting over them. If you’re still sitting on cash, note that the free-agent WR pool clearly has some league-mates spooked about depth. Streaming D/ST and backup QBs stayed cheap, so there’s still value to be had there if you’re patient.

That’s the wire for this week — see you next Wednesday.

If you’ve made it this far, I might as well mention that Claude wrote this. Thanks for reading.

The Wire: Weeks 7 & 8

Yoooooo, I missed last week because I was running around getting ready to go away, so here’s a quick two-fer. Lots of transactions Week 7 but not much action on The Wire, probably even less in Week 8. Gotta put together a LeagueStory to run through some of the overarching trends of the season so far, but that’s for another time:

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The Wire: Week 6 2022

Now THIS, this is the Wire I like to see folks. Three of five games were close enough that these roster moves could be said to have made (almost) all of the difference between a sweet dub and a lowly L.

Before we get into it, I wanted to use my platform to say my piece on the Taysom Hill debate: The fact of the matter is that half of The League bid on this player, and because of this it’s hard for any of them to deny that whoever won the auction would not have played him in the TE spot. After all, that’s the only spot ESPN is allowing him to be played in. It’s also worth repeating that there was no talk of him being “ineligible” until after Ryan had already spent the money, which is unfair to him and anyone else who might have won the auction had different offers been made. I don’t know if it’s easy to manually adjust FAAB, but if Andrew as the Commish is using executive power to disallow Ryan from slotting Hill in the TE spot then he should definitely be compensated the amount he spent. I personally think he should be allowed to play him, the Saints are kind of a mess so if you want to take that risk then go for it. That’s why I didn’t bid. I applaud Ryan for making a smart move with his FAAB in a season where he’s already a favorite for the belt, hope we can all level up like that.

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The Wire: Week 5 2022

Mfw it is Wednesday my dudes:

We had some fun this week fellas, and by we I mean me because I didn’t lose to Owen. There were two games that were pretty close that we’re gonna talk about but first I’ll reiterate something that was said on the podcast last week: Almost everyone got who they bid on, so y’all spent too much again. There was one competitive bid after the initial Tuesday-Wednesday rush that could have had some big implications on the week, let’s get into it.

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The Wire: Weeks 3 & 4 (2-for-1 SPECIAL)

Alrighty, I’ve got a lot to go over and some new stuff to talk about so we’re keeping the Wire talk pretty brief. In Week 3, everyone got who they bid on except for me who wanted the Saints Defense. It would not have mattered because I got whooped by Ryan the fantasy football Gawd. This is to say that aside from Brent and anyone who bid only $1 and got their guy, y’all spent TOO MUCH. We’ll see if that comes back to bit ya later in the season.

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The W1re: 2022 Edition!

Ahh The Wire. It’s good to be back, folks. I’m in a new apartment but it’s still the same deal as last year; I’ll tell you where you went wrong or right while waiting to watch the weekly wonder that is these world-famous warriors rushing and whirling that wobbly ball all over the goddamn place. It’s been about 2 hours in the making so far and I’ve been listening to the end of Season 12 of Family Guy in the background (Chris dating Jerome’s daughter, Peter and Meg bonding on a college trip, Cleveland coming back to Quahog, Stewie using his time machine to be in a British family). So let’s get this thing going!

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The Wire: Endgame

So last time I covered three weeks in one post, now I’m doing two. Maybe next week I’ll do just one. Who knows? The regular season may be it for this MBS mainstay, as I have important playoff things to worry about. We’ll see, but there will definitely be some more retrospective graphs and charts as we wrap things up and I explore the source of my last LeagueStory post: Flourish. Seems like they’ve got what it takes to give dumb guys like me who can’t code the ability to make nice-looking animated data visualization. Isn’t technology wonderful? Anyway, let’s take a look at the past 2 weeks before it’s Sunday again:

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The Wir3-Parter: Post- Thanksgiving Extravaganza

In the immortal words of Tommy Pickles, “Hold onto your diapies, babies. We’re going in!”

Wow, it’s been quite a while hasn’t it? I forget exactly what kept me from doing Weeks 10 on time, possibly work, but then the obvious Thanksgiving break came up for Week 11 and I suddenly found myself with COVID and nearly three weeks behind on my column. I’m really trying to keep this short as we all ease our way back into the content-sphere and gear up for the final weeks of the regular season. You can see every add and drop that went on for almost a month above, so I’ll just run through the highlights of each week. You can look for your name and see if there’s a green (good job) or a red (bad job) if I don’t mention ya below:

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The Wire x LeagueStory: An Investigative Report Regarding Week 9

In the words of Tom Wambsgans, “Buckle up, fuckleheads!” We had quite the week of close games, which have been discussed ad infinitum in the last few days on the Pod and in the Power Rankings. Obviously, I look at things a little differently and have a trove of stats and charts at my disposal, so get ready to relive the highs and lows of Week 9 and maybe learn something along the way…

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